[PATCH 0/2] cpustat: use atomic operations to read/update stats

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 15:09 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 13:50 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > Argh!! at what cost? 64bit atomics are like expensive. Wouldn't
> > adding
> > > a seqlock be saner?
> > 
> > Not sure. This requires a spinlock in the write side which is called
> > from
> > fast path like the timer interrupt.
> 
> A single spinlock is _way_ cheaper than a ton of cmpxchg8b()s to update
> a few variables.

We also have include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h since 2.6.36